Two Women Poets Died This Week: Kathleen Raine and Josephine Jacobsen

Josephine Jacobsen, an American, in 1971 became a consultant to the Library of Congress on poetry -- a position now called poet laureate of the United States. Kathleen Raines, an English poet, "wrote in the visionary romantic tradition of William Butler Yeats."
• Acclaimed Maryland Poet Wrote with a 'Pure Lyric Intensity'
• Josephine Jacobsen, 94; Was Equivalent to U.S. Poet Laureate
• Kathleen Raine, 95; English Poet in Visionary Romantic Tradition

Related resources:
• Poems by Women - Author Index
• Women Writers: 20th Century